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Tag Archives: food
Ugly Turkey
All our turkey leftovers are eaten and gone. Since I just threw away three year old zip-lock bags of Christmas ham, this is significant. We generally don’t do well with left overs. This time was different. This year I made … Continue reading
Elegant Solution for Starving, Rat Infested Parts of India
Let them eat Rat. An official also claimed it was a delicacy in France. The things you learn…
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged delicacy, eat, food, France, hunger, India, Indian, infestation, meat, poverty, rat, rats, starvation
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How Supermarkets Can End Poverty
Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That’s because industrial countries tend … Continue reading
Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, agriculture, Ashok Gulati, Asia, chains, consumers, developing, Economics, fdi, food, food prices, foreign direct investment, household, Hugo Chavez, India, inequity, International Food Policy Research Institute, Latin America, liberalization, nepal, poverty, revolution, scale, spending, supermarket, Thomas Reardon, United States, vegetables, Wal-Mart, world
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Minneapolis Enters the 21st Century
Backwards. Behind the times. Ah – the shame of it all, living up here in the prehistoric northwoods. Finally, however, civilization comes to the Twin Cities! Naked sushi is hitting the Twin Cities. Nyotaimori / Nantaimori – eating sushi off … Continue reading
Svankmajer’s Food
Jan Svankmajer‘s brilliant 1992 surrealist short film “Food.” Not the most appetizing movie, mind you. Part I .. Part II
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Tagged animation, art, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, films, food, Jan Svankmajer, movies, short film, stop motion, surrealism
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The real thing
Usually mass produced, consumed and popular products are considered bad, or possibly just OK. I would contend that Coke is not only good, if it were not in existence and someone invented it and served it a restaurant, charged a lot for it as a unique item it would be considered a standard bearer of excellence. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page
Tagged beer, beverages, bourbon, caffeine, coca-cola, cocktails, coke, cola, consumer products, David Bowie, Diet Coke, Dr. John, Dr. Pepper, Europeans, food, Iggy Pop, irony, Israel Kamakawiwo, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, mass production, Music, Over the Rainbowâ€, product development, rum, snobbery, soda pop, soft drinks, sprite, spy, Sunday Morning Coming Down, taste, The Clash, The Neutral Milk Hotel, The Saints, trendy foodies, performance
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